7-2-5: JURISDICTION:

   A.   Public Property: The City Forester shall manage and regulate the planting, maintenance, protection, removal and replacement of all public trees within the City limits, thus exercising the City authority to do so granted pursuant to the provisions of Idaho Code section 50-312, improvement of streets; Idaho Code section 50-317, removal of snow, ice rubbish and weeds; and Idaho Code section 40-1415(7), responsibilities of single countywide highway districts within cities, final decision on urban renewal projects, settlement of questions. (1952 Code § 9-16-05; amd. 2019 Code)

   B.   Private Property: The City Forester shall have jurisdiction over trees located on private property which are found to be public nuisances as defined in subsection 7-2-12A of this chapter and may cut and remove those trees from all private property within the City and the public rights-of-way abutting the same and may assess the cost thereof against the property so cleared, and against the property abutting public rights-of-way so cleared, as provided for in Idaho Code section 50-317. The assessment shall be collected as provided for in Idaho Code section 50-1008. (1952 Code § 9-16-05)